Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 6 Number 3
Table of Contents
News
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WACO:
The Terms of the Debate -
A Review of Waco: The Rules of Engagement, a Documentary Film
- “Experts” Declare UFOs Need Closer Look; What Happened to Madalyn Murray O’Hair?; Completing the Copernican Revolution
- Four Days On Planet Randi
- Science Talk With Michael Shermer; Religion = Lower Blood Pressure
Special Section
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Why Professors
Believe Weird Things -
Sex, Race, and the Trials of the New Left
- When Scholars Know Sin
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Alternative Religions and Their Academic Supporters
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Memes:
What Are They Good For? -
A Critique of Memetic Approaches
to Information Processing
- Psychotherapy
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The Snake Oil of the 90s?
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Facilitated Communication
in America -
Eight Years and Counting
Forum
- Embracing Uncertainty; Corporate Consent; Confessions of a Former Psychic; When You’re Dead, You’re Dead; Follow the Money; Conspiracy Central; Wilson’s Evolution; Geller on Geller’s Powers
- The Case for Yoda
- Graduate Record Exam
- The GRE as Fringe Science; Another Look; Oldfield Responds; GRE Measures Test Taking Skill; Fake GRE Words?
- Memetic Monotheism
Articles
- ’Twas Brillig…
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The True Believers
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Dumbth News from
This is True - A Mind Out of Body
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An Interview With Skeptical Parapsychologist Susan Blackmore
- Is God Dead?
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Why Nietzsche and Time Magazine Were Wrong
Reviews
- The Follies of Forecasting
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The Fortune Sellers: The Big Business of Buying and Selling Predictions, by William A. Sherden & John Wiley
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The Functional
Equivalent of God -
Looking At the Cosmos
and Seeing God
The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God,
by Hugh Ross
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Ordinary People With a
Not-So-Ordinary Problem -
Alien Abductions,
by Peter Brookesmith
- The Other Forbidden Fruit
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The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible,
by Jonathan Kirsch
- The God of Deep Waters
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All About Adam and Eve: How We Came to Believe in Gods, Demons, Miracles & Magical Rites,
by Robert J. Gillooly
foreword by Ashley Montagu
- All That Glitters Isn’t Gold
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The Gold of Exodus: The Discovery of the True Mount Sinai,
by Howard Blum
Junior Skeptic
- Bigfoot!
- Do You Believe In Magic?
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A Junior Skeptic Tests The Quadro Gollball Finder
- Crystals
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Junior Skeptic Explores the Real Magic Behind Crystals
- Junior Skeptic Book Review
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How Things Work. The Nature Company Discoveries Library,
by Hugh Boss
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The Believing Brain
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Top 10 Myths About Evolution (and how we know it really happened)
This concise pamphlet provides answers to common objections to evolution, such as: If humans came from apes, why aren’t apes evolving into humans?; Only an intelligent designer could have made something as complex as an eye; The second law of thermo-dynamics proves that evolution is impossible; Evolution can’t account for morality; and more…
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Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alternative Medicine
Harriet Hall, MD (aka the SkepDoc), shares her wit and wisdom about alternative medicine including: chiropractic, the placebo effect, homeopathy, acupuncture, and the questionable benefits of organic food, detoxification, and ‘natural’ remedies.
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Learn to be a Psychic in 10
Easy Lessons
Psychic readings and fortunetelling are an ancient art — a combination of acting and psychological manipulation. While some psychics are known to cheat and acquire information ahead of time, these ten tips focus on what is known as “cold reading” — reading someone “cold” without any prior knowledge about them.